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Mill MM 6D DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1988 Johnson adjusts to life out West 011 EBBS hope he's going to get even better," mammmmtmmmmxmmMmmmtxmm i niw i. mi said Hubbard, whose team is 5-4, Harvey Johnson and Fennis Dembo could co-star in a remake of the movie "Trading Places." 1 "Harvey's been rebounding better than we expected, and he stronger even though he doesn't show it. He's a-. -Chuck Yeager For starters, Delco Freedom, Dura Power and Voyager batteries are maintenance-free. That means you never have to give them a second jonnson, a former Detroit Pershing basketball player, is a freshman at Central Wyoming Junior College in Riverton.

Dembo, a former University of Wyoming star, is a Pistons rookie. Dembo, a guardforward, has played in only seven of 24 games this season. Johnson, a scon Walton Michigan people I more dedicated than anybody weve had in the weight room and that's a positive sign." Johnson said his friends called him "crazy" for going to a small Wyoming town. And he still isn't used to seeing cattle, elk and deer roaming the wide-open spaces. His travels mostly are limited to Goodtime Charlie's Tavern, the weight room and his bedroom that's it.

"My whole attitude had to change," he said. "Here in Detroit you have to have a big and bad attitude to keep from getting bullied. I've had to change into this real nice-guy attitude. "Playing ball is fun, and school is all right; I get along with all the teachers. I'll definitely have some good memories when I leave there, but while I'm there it doesn't seem like such a great idea.

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Bloomfield Old Farm swimming team, two-time Tri-City Summer Swimming League champion, made a surprise singing appearance at the West Bloom' field Nursing and Convalescent Cen Delco promising center, has found the rural West a strange experience for a young black man from an urban area. "It's a real hard adjustment," said Johnson, home for Christmas break. "Some people down there like 'us' and some of them don't. There are only seven blacks on campus (all basketball players), and some people there still have attitudes. "Here, you have tall buildings and people all around.

But there, there's nowhere to go and nothing to do. There are no shopping malls, and I don't have a car to drive like I do when I'm home. You can always find something to do to keep busy in Detroit. At Central you pretty much stay on campus all the time." Don't get the impression that all is lost for Johnson. His coach, Mark Hubbard, regularly calls the Free Press to report on his progress, and academically Johnson is doing fine.

So he perseveres in strange surroundings. Johnson averages 11.4 points and 8.4 rebounds for the Rustlers, ranking 10th nationally in rebounds. He hopes two seasons in junior college will get him a major college scholarship. "He's definitely progressed, and we GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION ter. Team coach Rick Maicki thought caroling would be a way to give the residents a holiday boost.

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SPARTANS, from Page ID Steigenga, 6-feet-7, was inserted into in the starting lineup at the start of the season. It was not a minute too soon for Spartans fans. MSU finished 10-18 (5-13 in the Big Ten) last season. MSU's five freshmen were ranked among the top five recruiting classes in the country, and Steigenga was the school's most heralded recruit since Earvin Johnson left Lansing Everett in 1977. Although no one puts Steigenga in Johnson's class (who big things are expected of him.

"We're pleased with Matt not many freshmen can come in and play right away," said MSU coach Jud Heathcote. "Matt is a better athlete than he is a basketball player right now. He still doesn't know yet how hard he has to play. "Matt is a finesse player who needs to be a physical player." Last week in MSU's overtime victory over the University of Detroit, Steigenga took only six shots and made them all. Sometimes he gave up good shots and passed to teammates with marginally better scoring opportunities.

"Matt has not had great success in practice," Heathcote said. "He's a little hesitant to do things in games that he could, or should, do. He's passing those opportunities up. We can go through a practice for 10 minutes and he might not score. What he needs is more confidence, and confidence comes from having success.

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It could be next year or it could be when he's a junior." The sooner the better for Steigenga. He is accustomed to dominating games the way he did at South Christian. "Even the practices here are something," Steigenga said. "The practices are so much more intense than they were in high school. Everything is at a higher level all of the time.

The practices are like the games were in high school. Fewer fouls are called in practices. I'd say my biggest adjustment has been the physicalness of it all." After going 6-for-6 at U-D, Steigenga hit his first four shots Saturday night against Austin Peay. He finished with 16 points and nine rebounds. Steigenga chose MSU over perennial power North Carolina, ranked No.

8 nationally this week. He hasn't missed the national exposure. "I love it here," he said. "I have no regrets. I don't think about other schools.

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